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The word 'fetlar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fetlarOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.795
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fetlar in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
hairst, and kerried ower tae Fetlar?(2020)

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ee plaess naems Yell, Unst an Fetlar is tocht tae be pre-Norse, bi on page 15
ou bide IN Shetland / Burra / Fetlar / Yell, whaaras you staand ON on page 79

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@helenmoncrieff tweeted
rke @StuartHousden #shetland #fetlar #sumburgh http://t.co/2Uz3k7I(2014)
e returned from a few days on Fetlar, where I experienced the sunn(2013)
(Great northern diver) fae da Fetlar ferry #badbirdphoto #Shetland(2015)
lR74 Dey were brawly bitey in fetlar da idder night ??(2019)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
ae Lerwick but sho grew up on Fetlar. Spent a lot o school holiday (2020) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ire tae Antrim, Dungannon tae Fetlar on page 77

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